Solidarity to Solutions 2018, a Counterpoint to Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS)

The It Takes Roots Alliance held an informational webinar on Wednesday, June 20th to discuss the September 8-14, 2018 #ItTakesRoots Solidarity to Solutions Week in San Francisco this fall! Watch the recording of the webinar here: The Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice, Indigenous Environmental Network and Right to the City have joined forces in the It Takes Roots Alliance…

Solidarity to Solutions: the ITR Sol2Sol Week

Dear It Takes Roots family, friends and supporters, In September 2018, the Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Right to the City Alliance, which together form the It Takes Roots Coalition travelled from the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Mozambique, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Germany, Uruguay,…

ITR Action Camp 2018: From Roots to Resilience

The It Takes Roots Alliances (Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Right to the City Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network), held it's first It Takes Roots & The Ruckus Society, National Direct Action + Community Resiliency Camp at Wildseed Farm in Millerton NY from June 1-5, 2018. We trained our forces on an array of strategic + tactical & self and community…

In Response to America’s Pledge, Californians Ask Governor Brown: Still In for What?

  In Response to America’s Pledge, Californians Ask Governor Brown: Still In for What? As California Governor Jerry Brown arrives to UN Climate Talks to Promote His Climate Agenda, Californians and Frontline Groups Put Pressure on the Governor to Take Bolder Climate Action to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Bonn, Germany - Today, Californians and those on the frontlines of climate change…

U.S. People’s Delegation Takes on Trump Administration at COP23

Community and grassroots leaders from the U.S. on Tuesday announced their platform at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23). The "U.S. People's Delegation" is attending to counter the Trump administration's fossil fuel agenda and to hold U.S. states, cities, businesses and the public accountable to climate action commitments. The platform includes youth, Indigenous…

VIDEO: Ende Gelände Action Sun Nov 5th

4,500 People Shut Down Work at One of the Deepest Open-Pit Coals Mines on Earth! Click here to watch video. The day before the official start of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change #COP23, in Bonn, Germany, 4500 climate activists from the Ende Gelände alliance took direct action to stop operation of the Hambach open-pit lignite coal mine, near Buir, Germany,…

Multicultural and Intergenerational Grassroots Delegation Heads to COP23

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 30, 2017 Multicultural and Intergenerational Grassroots Delegation From the United States to Hold Non-Violent Direct Actions and Events During the UNFCCC Climate Change Convention in Bonn, Germany   Indigenous, African American, and Latino Delegates from the United States will participate in the UNFCCC COP23 to bring awareness to how their…

Meet the Delegates

Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) (Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine) is the National Keep It In The Ground Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network and a co-founder of the 1491s comedy group. He is Mdewakantunwan Dakota from the village of Cansayapi in Dakota territory. He is a digital media producer, a nationally-known public speaker, activist, performer and…

COP23 Delegation

It Takes Roots to Grow the Solutions COP23 Bonn, Germany Nov 4 - 17, 2017 The Indigenous Environmental Network, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, and the Climate Justice Alliance  have joined forces again for a powerful delegation of more than 20 frontline leaders from North American climate justice movements to the23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) of the United Nations…

From counting CO2 towards a sweeping change: how do we work towards transition

Climate justice is much more than a technical reduction of CO2-emissions – we need a sweeping transition of society. On this panel we will explore: How can we find an inspiring vision for a society based on caring for the planet and each other? What can we learn from positive examples around the world? How do we break out of our own single-issue„silos“ and connect for a common movement? What are…

Resistance Hubs

On April 27, more than 100 leaders from communities on the frontlines of environmental and climate crises convened to strategize about building Resistance Hubs. During this half-day forum, the participants mapped their diverse resistance work – from anti-gentrification to food sovereignty, jobs to environment, youth to anti-militarism, and immigrants’ and Indigenous peoples’ rights – and, through…

Delegations

We convene frontline communities for multi-racial, cross-sector delegations at key strategic mobilization moments. Some recent delegations we have led over the past year include: Our first post-elections It Takes Roots collective action was a delegation of 100+ people of color to Standing Rock during Thankstaking week in November 2016 to support the historic resistance model of stopping…

Confront Hate from Charlottesville to the Whitehouse

This past weekend, armed and organized white supremacists converged on Charlottesville, Virginia to promote their racist, patriarchal & xenophobic ideologies, and perpetrated deadly attacks on our people. We are deeply saddened and outraged by the violent terror being waged on Black, Latina, Queer, Immigrant, Indigenous, Jewish, Muslim and people of color and oppressed communities across…

True Climate Justice Puts Communities of Color First

A Black Lives Matter member speaks during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on November 12, 2016. (Reuters / Stephanie Keith) https://www.thenation.com/article/true-climate-justice-puts-communities-of-color-first/ By Audrea Lim, May 22, 2017 Black and brown communities have long borne the brunt of our addiction to fossil fuels—and now they…

The March to Save the Planet

Peoples Climate March demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue, April 29, 2017. (Reuters / Mike Theiler) https://www.thenation.com/article/the-march-to-save-the-planet/ Saturday’s Peoples Climate March brought together activists from indigenous resistance groups to Black Lives Matter to the Boy Scouts, all demanding: Act now. By Audrea Lim APRIL 30, 2017  Washington, DC, was sweltering on…

People’s Climate March Encircles Trump White House

Posted by News Editor in Air/Climate, Latest News, RSS on April 30, 2017 9:59 pm / no comments http://ens-newswire.com/2017/04/30/peoples-climate-march-encircles-trump-white-house/ WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2017 (ENS) – Calling for jobs, climate justice and climate action, more than 200,000 people jammed the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday in record 90-degree temperatures. The…

Watch: Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the 2017 People’s Climate March

https://www.democracynow.org/live/coming_up_on_april_29th_democracy On Saturday, April 29, Democracy Now! will provide special live coverage of the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., organized to protest the Trump administration’s climate change-denying agenda. Click here for information about Democracy Now!’s coverage of the March for Science on April 22. TRANSCRIPT This…

How to Put People Back to Work with a Green Transition

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19025:How-to-Put-People-Back-to-Work-with-a-Green-Transition Chris Woolery of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth discusses empowering workers and communities with renewable energy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVswC0jF3F0 CHRIS WOOLERY: In eastern Kentucky we're seeing a transition away from fossil fuels, and its impacting communities and workers. And…